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- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 2 days ago:
You need people to move into the countryside, ideally where they aren’t selling land or building houses, and there’s no jobs. Plus it may well be an environment that will gerrymander the hell out of any such transplants if they happen to clump up.
I’m not saying it’s a bad plan, but it’s a hail-mary pass at best, and you need a lot of people to do this. Consider what the Libertarians tried with New Hampshire a while back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
- Comment on Dazzling! 2 days ago:
You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!
- Comment on Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat 5 days ago:
It’s a little worse than that. Consider the intimate the contact between fido’s hindquarters and that seat.
- Comment on Cooking 1 week ago:
Well, now you have charcoal to cook the next batch correctly.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 1 week ago:
It’s not that they don’t understand it. It’s that they literally can’t afford to adopt it.
Corporate ownership, combined with being publicly traded or privately investor funded, means that you have to increase shareholder value. Stock dividends aren’t enough. So, they use the only play that they know: scale the company up.
Problem is: you can scale art, but scaling software is very hard. Book publishers and record labels figured this out ages ago: keep adding more artists and more products. Meanwhile, AAA game studios keep stacking bodies onto existing IPs, making fewer yet bigger software products instead. Meanwhile, they keep getting bodied by small upstarts like Team Cherry, because they’re practically a garage band in comparison. If everyone just ran their game companies like Penguin Random House instead of Microsoft, they’d be in better shape.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 week ago:
Yes. You basically have to keep eating that way and your gut flora adjust to compensate. It’s still a pretty windy diet since you rely on those gut-bugs to break down a lot of the sugars in beans.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 week ago:
There’s a version of this where 3rd person movement controls are logical to the avatar, rather than to the screen. Only in this case, it’s the developers who are wrong. I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 1.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 week ago:
I did most of a Dark Souls playthrough with a PS3 controller that was breaking down. There’s a tiny foam block on the inside that, after some years of abuse, will flatten out and trigger spurious inputs if some controls are pressed too hard. This caused an interesting challenge, since after panic-rolling, I would usually stand back up disarmed (d-pad alt right/left swaps that hand out for an alt item which was empty). It seemed kinda/sorta natural that way, and didn’t know that wasn’t a game mechanic (in this already ludicrously hard game) until I talked to some friends about it.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 1 week ago:
More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.
- Comment on where did we go wrong 2 weeks ago:
Huh. So, on another timeline, without WWII getting in the way, society just goes straight to Burning Man. I like it.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
Tires are the enemy.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
Lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps all the fking time. The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital censor, so I can’t say stuff like St ck py or fkin-dkballs. That’s like half my vocabulary, it’s goddamn bulls*t!!
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
- Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
- This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
- If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
- Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
- Okay, that’s just fun.
- Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
- Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
- Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
- Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
As one of the horde of neurodivergent folks that love Hank’s content, Ikind of need it this way. Chris Boden is another one. Long, still, static shots, just punch me right in the attention span and are hard to get through. It takes way more effort than the occasional jump-cut to pull off.
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 4 weeks ago:
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 4 weeks ago:
Good days are in short supply right now. Why you do this?
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 5 weeks ago:
Only if both spouses were previously married, and you ask first. With the right crowd, that’s a howler.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 month ago:
I’m just as mystified as you.
The only time I interact with the service is when I’m sent a link to a cool band/song and I wind up on the site. “Oh, this again.” I really have zero concept of fandom for something like this.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 1 month ago:
Even better, id be interested to see what happens in a state with castle doctrine.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts that they know who and who doesn’t have registered firearms. They are cherry-picking easy targets right now, and are going to avoid a gunfight if they can help it.
- Comment on Yeasty 1 month ago:
Yeast is anaerobic, meaning that it doesn’t need access to air to metabolize sugars into CO2. So it’s not gonna stop expanding once down the drain. Add to that the very sticky dough surrounding it, and you basically have a recipe ideal for clogging a sewer drain.
- Comment on Yeasty 1 month ago:
PSA: Kidding aside, never do this.
- Comment on Yeasty 1 month ago:
These look like a props from a Troma film.
- Comment on Something to think about 1 month ago:
And I took no offense: we’re good! And yes, these events are front-row seats for epic people-watching. The logistics make no sense, the vibes are sheer chaos, nobody is really prepared to take care of themselves for a few days straight, and these nightcrawlers just bring the strange in droves. it’s wonderful.
